Activation

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The discussions on this newsgroup helped me realize that another way
of explaining the user interface in 1.4 may help people familiar with
the 1.3 mechanism.

In 1.4 you add a domain to the whitelist by opening Firebug on a page
in that domain. So for example if you open the URL http://getfirebug.com,
then open Firebug, the domain getfirebug.com is added to the
whitelist. If you subsequently open http://blog.getfirebug.com,
Firebug will be opened because getfirebug.com is on the whitelist.

In 1.4 you add a domain to the blacklist by clicking [X] in the upper
right corner of Firebug when Firebug is open on a page in that domain.
Continuing the example above, while on http://blog.getfirebug.com, if
you click the [X] button Firebug closes. When you go back to
http://getfirebug.com, Firebug is still closed because getfirebug.com
is on the blacklist.

A few details:

First the mechanism used for the tests is closer to the same-origin
policy of Firefox than simple domain comparison. The case that will
probably confuse people is http vs https: Firebug like Firefox
considers http://getfirebug.com to be different than https://getfirebug.com.

Second, this description assumes you have 1.4b5 or later and that you
leave the default option Activate Same Origin checked.